2006-07-28 07:40:59 · 10 answers · asked by vanaid2003 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Loan me $500.00 and I will pay you back when I give you the rest of the money you loaned me.
( catch on?)
2006-07-28 07:43:18 · answer #1 · answered by whynotaskdon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure where it comes from, but it is a wise one. For example, let us say somebody did a business transaction with you for $100 and didn't pay you. You try to get it back nicely and it doesn't work. You go to a lawyer who tells you it will cost you a $1000 to maybe get your $100 back. What is better: writing off the $100 or throwing good money (another $1000) after the bad (the lost $100)?
So, it is often best to cut our losses and move on.
2006-07-28 07:47:17 · answer #2 · answered by Amber B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I long time ago a man took a woman at closing time from a bar to an expensive hotel . The next morn he woke and saw what he had brought home(lets just say nasty nasty)...anyway a few weeks later at the same bar at closing time with the same woman across the way and no luck all night he turned to his buddy and said well " I guess I'll throw good money after bad"
2006-07-28 08:03:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You worked hard all week and got your decent check. Instead of going home, you stop by 7-Eleven for a six-pack, condoms, cherry flavored cigars, and a Maxim magazine with Nicole Richie on the cover. You drive straight to the projects and pick up a hooker with big boobs and she costs over a hundred dollars for long time. Your check is spent and you have nothing to show for it but a dose of crabs and a possible case of herpes.
2006-07-28 07:49:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Me. I had my car repaired for $389, it was no better, so I paid another $240 to have it repaired again, it was no better, so I paid $269 to have it repaired again, it was no better so I paid $320 to have it repaired again. I told the garage, "I'm throwing good money after bad."
2006-07-28 07:48:51 · answer #5 · answered by Mr.Wise 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's an idiom and means to spend more money on something which has already failed or to waste money. Possibly Irish in origin.
2006-07-28 07:52:58 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Once you waste money it is bad..If you waste more on the same thing you are knowingly wasting good money
2006-07-28 07:43:42 · answer #7 · answered by dwh12345 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably a variation on ". . . casting loaves upon the water," or "casting your pearls before swine" type of thing. Biblical in proportion, capitalistic in its aim.
2006-07-28 07:45:35 · answer #8 · answered by The Stranger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe my accountant starting using this phrase once he got done trying to balance my checkbook.
2006-07-28 07:43:39 · answer #9 · answered by curious 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
buying drugs
liquor
something considered a bad item.
2006-07-28 07:43:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋